Typological Universals as Reflections of Biased Learning: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 310-329

  Culbertson, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 84860481291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lnc3.338     Document Type: Article

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